Remembering the victims of the Parkland slaughter

[malaise]

five years ago today.
Guns kill!

Stop the guns!

[marmar]

1. Yep. I was reading about the Michigan State shooting....

.... and Parkland was in my FB memories for this day. Just another day of American exceptionalism, sadly.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Only five years?

I heard that this morning and thought it seems so long ago that it happened. Maybe because there have been so many killings since then.

[niyad]

3. The gunhumping cultists think they are invincible.

[Raftergirl]

4. I was at my mom's pool in Pompano Beach that afternoon and heard sirens blaring for a very long time

You could tell something very serious was happening.

Took a bit before we found out what had happened. 😢

[snowybirdie]

5. Forgotten already

Is the Feb 14 shooting at Northern Illinois University 15 years ago. 7 killed, 21 injured. My grand son's girlfriend was shot and wounded that day. He's still haunted.

[malaise]

6. Indeed

Let's remember them too - sadly there are too many Valentine's Day murders to mention.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. Indeed. How can any human keep track of all the endless shootings?

[hibbing]

7. I was delusional thinking Parkland would change things n/t

[malaise]

17. I thought Sandy Hook would be the last straw

There is no last straw for gun humpers

[dlk]

8. Republicans no longer believe in public safety

As long as they hold office, the carnage will not only continue, but increase over time

[LymphocyteLover]

13. they are a death and trauma cult

truly evil

[dlk]

19. Whether mass shootings or over a million Covid deaths

They walk away as if it is nothing; that the lives lost mean nothing.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. Seriously-- it is sickening if not criminal

[dlk]

22. It's a pathology

And it’s epidemic.

[LymphocyteLover]

23. Indeed

[MontanaMama]

9. I saw a TikTok video this morning

by a young woman who is a student at MSU. She was in the building across the street from Berkey Hall when the shooting occurred. This woman was ALSO a survivor of the Sandy Hook massacre. This is incomprehensible…that she has survived two mass shootings. TWO. How she is upright and speaking today is unbelievable. My heart breaks.


ETA: it was Shannon Watts’ feed so that’s my source.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. I saw someone who survived the Oxford HS shooting and now this

Kids are being traumatized into mental health crises

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=Usek-XcGmw6jGByRDZ0JSg

[MontanaMama]

15. My word.

The United States of America is sanctioning mass trauma on our children. We will reap what we sow.

[malaise]

18. She was just on M$NBComcast

Madness

[LymphocyteLover]

10. Thoughts to Fred Guttenberg, a great advocate for gun sense

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=4GS0K7K3BTyIxqtQxo3V1w

[democrank]

11. So, so heartbreaking

I can’t even find the words…..

[malaise]

16. He will never recover

There are tears in his voice and yet he fights on. What a good man.

[Aristus]

20. Republicans:

People for whom a tiny mass of undifferentiated cells is a "precious, precious life".

And an elementary school child is target practice.